PART VI. 
CHAPTER II. 
CONCLUDING SPEECH AND FINAL RESOLUTION. 
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Northcote): Now that you have approved 
the various conclusions and recommendations which have been put up 
to you by the various sections, I think that your labours are concluded 
and it appears to me that one can only consider that the result is 
satisfactory, for of all the conclusions that have been before you there 
is only one which has not been unanimously accepted, and that, which 
deals with the place of publication of an East African Agricultural 
Journal, can hardly be considered to be a very essential one. 
I regret that I have not been able to take the Chair more 
frequently during the Conference, but other urgent business has 
prevented me from doing so and I have been kept in constant touch 
with the work that has been done. 
Such a Conference as this, with representatives from so many 
territories must be of great value to all concerned, not only from the 
official discussions which take place with regard to items on the 
Agenda, but also from those many unofficial conversations which take 
place between representatives from the different territories who are 
interested in the same subjects. 
Kenya is proud and pleased that this representative Conference— 
the first of its nature in East Africa—should have been held at 
Nairobi, and, as our President remarked in his opening speech, I think 
we are all of us indebted to the Secretary of State and also to the 
Governors’ Conference for convening it. I think that we should all 
thank the Secretary of State for his foresight in issuing instructions 
that the preparation of the Agenda and the arrangements for the 
conduct of the Conference should be made by the Secretariat of the 
Governors’ Conference; one of the many advantages to be derived from 
the employment of that disinterested office—if I may so describe it— 
for such a purpose is that it ensures the Conference from any subse- 
quent reproach that undue prominence was given to any particular 
problem. 
To my mind there is no doubt that there has throughout been a 
splendid spirit of co-operation and that everyone has worked together 
with the greatest desire to solve the problems before the Conference. 
The valuable and unanimous conclusions which have been reached I 
hope will be considered by the President to be sufficient to justify the 
remarks that he made in his opening address. This Conference marks 
a milestone on the road to common endeavour and common policy for 
the development of the immense national resources of the Eastern and 
Southern half of the Continent of Africa, and I firmly hope that from 
this Conference results may be achieved which will be of advantage 
to the countries and places represented. 
After your strenuous labours of these last few days I will keep 
you no longer. I trust that you have enjoyed your time in Kenya and 
hope that your work in the Conference rooms has not been so heavy 
that you have been unable to appreciate the beauties of the country 
during the tours which you have made and I hope that you will take 
away with you pleasant memories of this country. 
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